If the sight of the blueskiesfillsyou with joy,if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,Rejoice, for your soul is alive.- Eleanora Duse

My life is my message.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you want a love message to be heard,it has got to be sent out.To keep a lamp burning,we have to keep putting oil in it.- Mother Teresa

All major religious traditionscarry basically the same message,that is love, compassion and forgiveness.The important thing is they shouldbe part of our daily lives.- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

I think one of the finest gifts I can givemy friends in the holiday season is to pausewith a long enough quality to actually SEE them.My calm, unhurried presence communicatesthis gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.I remember our times of togetherand am contributing right now to another quality memory.I value you and honor and take the time,right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."- Mary Anne Radmacher

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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message,an advent of sense.- Thomas Harrison

The world is perfect. It's a mess.It has always been a mess.We are not going to change it.Our job is to straighten out our own lives.- Joseph Campbell

This life is what you make it.Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,it's a universal truth.But the good part is,you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.But just remember, some come, some go.The ones that stay with you through everything -they're your true best friends.Don't let go of them.Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.- Marilyn Monroe

Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.Consider gifting hand-made cards with messagesof true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We may not always be aware of it, but we all createand repeat affirmations constantly.The problem is, we typically don't pay attentionto exactly what those affirmations are saying.Often we go through the day giving ourselvesall sorts of contradictory, or even negative messages.We may project confidence to the world around us,while our inner dialogue says...I hope this works.I am so nervous about this.I hope I don't blow it.Affirmations are self fulfilling prophecies.If we say, This is never going to work... then chances are excellent it never will.- John Assaraf

I decided that it was not wisdom thatenabled poets to write their poetry,but a kind of instinct or inspiration,such as you find in seers and prophetswho deliver all their sublime messageswithout knowing in the least what they mean.- Socrates

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill.It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying,and the consequences are serious.- Oliver Stone

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.- Brock Yates

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.- Mason Cooley

No persons are more frequently wrong,than those who will not admit they are wrong.- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever your work and whatever its worth,No matter how strong or clever,Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,And scoff at your best endeavor.For the target art has a broad expanse,And wherever you chance to hit it,Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,There are those who will never admit it.- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The man with insight enough to admit his limitationscomes nearest to perfection.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Immortality is a long shot, I admit.But somebody has to be first.- Bill Cosby

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.- Bruce Lee

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.- Mary Roberts Rinehart

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one countryis no fit to rule another country must admit that oneclass is not fit to rule another class.- B. R. Ambedkar

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors,since all men are equal, but he does not admit thathe has no social inferiors,for, from the time of Jefferson onward,the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards,not downwards.- Bertrand Russell

I must admit that I personally measure successin terms of the contributionsan individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.- Margaret Mead

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it?Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?If not, we should be sincere enough to admitthat we love evil too well to give it up.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes.It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.- Steve Jobs

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?If not, we should be sincere enough to admitthat we love evil too well to give it up.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Many cats are the death of the mouse.- Kaspar Hauser

Just watching my cats can make me happy.- Paula Cole

I've always been mad about cats.- Vivien Leigh

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.- James Herriot

I love cats.- Dick Van Patten

Time spent with cats is never wasted.- Sigmund Freud

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.- Garrison Keillor

There are two means of refugefrom the miseries of life:music and cats.- Albert Schweitzer

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.- William S. Burroughs

Showing cats is addictive.All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.- Donna Andrews

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep,and company only when they want it.- Rod McKuen

We have three cats.It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.- Ron Reagan

If cats were double the size they are now,they'd probably be illegal.- Doug Coupland

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.- Abraham Lincoln

I am fond of pigs.Dogs look up to us.Cats look down on us.Pigs treat us as equals.- Winston Churchill

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert,gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us justenough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.- Agnes Repplier

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people,and many cats prefer people to other cats.- Mason Cooley

Cats know how to obtain food without labor,shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.- W. L. George

I have studied many philosophers and many cats.The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.- Hippolyte Taine

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.- Jules Verne

The problem with cats is that they get the exact samelook on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.- Paula Poundstone

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures,fresh vegetables to cook, the garden,the hens to feed.- Jeanette Winterson

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows,cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.- Cleveland Amory

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine andtouching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed.These things, to me, are expressions of love.- James Herriot

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never doesany harm to ask for what you want.- Joseph Wood Krutch

Women and cats will do as they please,and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.- Robert A. Heinlein

I'm lucky because I have a job I love.I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed,seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies.I have a couple cats.I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going onthe road so I wont see him for a while.I feel bad.- Michelle Branch

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns,do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior,that they are so united to creative people.- Andre Norton

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subjectto a good many different ailments,but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.- Joseph Wood Krutch

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges.Cats have the courage to live by them.- Jim Davis

I love cats because I enjoy my home;and little by little,they become its visible soul.- Jean Cocteau

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything...like stray cats and squirrels.- Eric Roberts

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult.It's not.Mine had me trained in two days.- Bill Dana

CALM IN CHAOSIn the midst of the flurry - clarity.In the midst of the storm - calm.In the midst of divided interests - certainty.In the many roads - a certain choice.- Mary Anne Radmacher